rookie

rookie
rookie 1892, "raw recruit," originally in Kipling's Barrack-Room Ballads, perhaps from RECRUIT (Cf. recruit), influenced by ROOK (Cf. rook) (1) in its secondary sense, suggesting "easy to cheat."

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